Author:Abraham Lincoln
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16th president of the United States (1861–1865); Whig U.S. representative from Illinois (1847–1849; Illinois militia 1832) 
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Abraham Lincoln
Works
Inaugural addresses
- First Inaugural Address (4 March 1861)
- Second Inaugural Address (4 March 1865)
State of the Union addresses
- First State of the Union address (3 December 1861)
- Second State of the Union address (1 December 1862)
- Third State of the Union address (8 December 1863)
- Fourth State of the Union address (6 December 1864)
Executive orders and proclamations
- Executive Orders
- Order to Suspend Habeas Corpus, April 27, 1861
- Order to Suspend Habeas Corpus, July 2, 1861
- Amnesty to Political or State Prisoners (February 14, 1862)
- Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation (September 22, 1862)
- Proclamation Suspending Habeas Corpus (September 24, 1862)
- Final Emancipation Proclamation (January 1, 1863)
- The Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
- Proclamation Suspending Habeas Corpus (September 15, 1863)
- Thanksgiving Proclamation (1863) (October 3, 1863)
- Proclamation of Amnesty (December 8, 1863)
- Proclamation Declaring Martial Law and a Further Suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus in Kentucky (July 5, 1864)
Other works
- Life and Works of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 3
- "I Am Humble Abraham Lincoln"
- The Improvement of Sangamon River
- In Favor of Equal Suffrage and Public Improvements
- Perils of Mobocracy
- The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions, known as The Lyceum Address (January 27, 1838)
- Injustice the Foundation of Slavery
- Against the Sale of State Lands at a Low Price
- The Home Market and Other Advantages of a Protective Tariff
- "Spot Resolutions" on Mexican War
- In Favor of Internal Improvements
- Eulogy of Henry Clay
- Patent US6469, Buoying vessels over shoals, (May 22, 1859)
- House Divided Speech (June 16, 1858)
- The Lincoln–Douglas debates of 1858
- Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society (1859) (page)
- Cooper Union Speech (1860) (page)
- Farewell Address (1861) (page)
- Address on Colonization to a Deputation of Negroes (1862)
- Gettysburg Address (November 19, 1863)
- Speeches to Ohio Regiments (1864) (page)
- The Peace Conference: Message from President Lincoln (February 11, 1865)
- Final public address (April 11, 1865) (page)
- The Bear Hunt, poem
- Remarkable Case of Arrest for Murder, short story
- Niagara always forever
Letters
- Letter to W. H. Lamon (June 11, 1858)
- Letter to Jesse W. Fell (December 1859)
- Letters to Carl Schurz:
- 1860: June 18.
- 1862: November 10 and November 24.
- Letter to A. G. Hodges (April 4, 1864)
- Letter to Mrs. Bixby (November 21, 1864; a current belief is that this was written by his secretary, John Hay)
Telegrams
- Telegram to Lt. Gen. Ulysses Grant at City Point, Virginia (August 17, 1864)
Compilations
- Life and Works of Abraham Lincoln (1909, 10 volumes) (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
Works about Lincoln
- See also: Category:Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- "The Death of Lincoln", poem by William Bryant
- "The Quakers are Out" by John Greenleaf Whittier about Lincoln's 1860 Presidential campaign
- Abraham Lincoln, president elect of the United States, article published in December 1860 by Once a Week magazine, London.
- "Abraham Lincoln: A Horatian Ode" (1865), poem by Richard Henry Stoddard
- "For the Services in Memory of Abraham Lincoln" (1865) by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- "O Captain! My Captain!" (1865), poem by Walt Whitman
- The Life of Abraham Lincoln (1866), by Josiah Gilbert Holland
- Six Months at the White House (1866) by Francis Bicknell Carpenter
- Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln (1876) by Frederick Douglass
- "Lincoln, Abraham," by Rossiter Johnson in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
- "Abraham Lincoln," by John G. Nicolay in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 14) (1882)
- The Life of Abraham Lincoln (1885), by Isaac N. Arnold
- Abraham Lincoln: A History (1890) by John G. Nicolay and John Hay
- Abraham Lincoln: An Essay (1891) by Carl Schurz
- Abraham Lincoln, a poem (1895) by Lyman Whitney Allen
- "The Story of Abraham Lincoln" from Four Great Americans (1897) by James Baldwin
- "Lincoln, Abraham," by William Peterfield Trent in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
- The Perfect Tribute (1906) by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
- "Lincoln, Abraham," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
- Tolstoy on Lincoln (1909) by Leo Tolstoy as told to Count S. Stakelberg
- "A Hero" (1909), poem by Florence Earle Coates
- "Abraham Lincoln address" (1909), by George Llewellyn Christian
- "Lincoln, Abraham," by John George Nicolay and Charles Crawford Whinery in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "His Face" (1911), poem by Florence Earle Coates
- Abraham Lincoln: A Story and a Play (1914) by Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade
- "Abraham Lincoln" (1914) by John Hay in The Presidents of the United States, 1789-1914
- "Lincoln, Abraham," by Eleanor Atkinson in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
- "Lincoln, Abraham," by Daniel Fish in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "Lincoln, Abraham," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
- "If Abraham Lincoln's Father Had Moved Southward, Not Northward", a speculative scenario in the alternate history collection The Ifs of History (1907)
Letters to Lincoln
- Letter from Carl Schurz (May 22, 1860)
- Letter from Carl Schurz (November 8, 1862)
- Letter from Carl Schurz (November 20, 1862)
- Elder Letter to President Lincoln (1864)
Letters of Condolence to his family
Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1930, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.
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